Chapter 3: Becoming a Witch
The emergency room is small in size, with only one bed, but it has a brand new ventilator and ECG monitor, which looks like a lot of money.
A young woman in a white coat who stayed by the bedside and looked like a big hospital making first aid records, saw the two people who broke in, and immediately asked in a crisp voice: "May I ask if you are Zhang Daowu's family?"
"Nurse, I'm his fellow villager, this is his own cub, what's wrong with Daowu?"
Although she was surprised that the patient had such a young son, the young woman immediately replied professionally: "I am a doctor, and the patient is in danger and needs immediate surgery, and the time has been delayed too much, so I must sign immediately." ”
When the female doctor was talking to the middle-aged man, Zhang Lisheng looked at the dying father on the hospital bed in a trance, his face was pale and extremely old, and there was a lot of grief and happiness in his heart.
Speaking of Zhang Daowu's status in Yuwo Village is very special, although he has an indifferent personality, never associates with the name of the village, is not a cadre in the village, or a respected old man, but all the villagers in Yuwo Village are in awe of him, even the old branch secretary who has been the pillar of the mountain village for more than 30 years does not dare to offend him easily.
Legend has it that Zhang Daowu is over 80 years old, and some say that he is more than 100 years old, in short, because of the previous wars and turmoil, all claims are no longer verifiable.
The only thing people know is that when the red whirlwind of the Cultural Revolution swept across the country and even blew into the remote village of Ouwo, the five-member team of the county who wanted to criticize Zhang Daowu once died.
Although the causes of those people's deaths were all seemingly inexplicable coincidences, after all, this is the ground of western Sichuan. From then on, there was no trouble for the revolutionary masses and cadres to go to Zhang Daowu.
However, for his son, Zhang Daowu is not the mysterious witch, but a cruel tyrant, Zhang Lisheng just had a memory when he was young, and he was not good at speaking, so he was forced to recite those tongue-twisting formulas, and if he couldn't memorize it, he was hungry for food, and even bone needles pierced flesh;
When I grew up, I just could hold a pen, so I had to draw a gourd a hundred times a night, copying the complex patterns and ancient texts on the ancient books, and the slightest negligence was to serve with a wooden stick;
Growing up, Zhang Lisheng, who was just over twelve years old, was in the period of puberty, and was forced by his father to serve poisonous insects with flesh and blood, and suffered a big loss of sperm and blood three times a day.
Scenes of the past flashed in front of him, and Zhang Lisheng realized that in his short sixteen years of life, he had not enjoyed even a second of happiness and warmth.
At this moment, when I saw my father who was on the verge of death, I thought that he could no longer criticize himself, and it was the easiest moment of his life!
And when Zhang Lisheng unconsciously recalled the past, the old man on the hospital bed suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were fixed on his only heir, his face showed a fusion of ecstasy and determination, and his lips began to tremble and chant silently.
Others didn't know what Zhang Daowu was doing when he suddenly woke up, but Zhang Lisheng, who was looking at him, knew that Daddy Lu Dao was chanting witch spells.
Could it be that the spell that drives away poisonous insects can still save lives, in his astonishment, this thought flashed inexplicably in Zhang Lisheng's heart, and then he felt a mysterious murmur in his ears, and his mind became chaotic.
All kinds of things seem complicated, but in fact, within ten seconds, after the emergency room hurriedly explained the serious condition of the patient to Tao Lielin, the young female doctor was about to take the operation consent form and ask the patient's son to sign it, but found that the young man was staring at his father on the hospital bed and standing staggeringly, as if he had lost his mind.
The patient was in danger, and the female doctor immediately instinctively flashed this thought in her heart, and then saw that the patient's face was stiff, and the mouth was unconsciously convulsed, obviously showing clinical symptoms of organ failure.
"The patient's heartbeat is 35, his body temperature is 34, and he presents original organ failure, and the heart artery is directly injected with a Ris cardiac first aid agent..."
It's a pity that the medicine doctor doesn't die, and in the end the female doctor still failed to save the life of the dying Zhang Daowu, after a single person struggled to rescue with a pacemaker several electric shocks, the beating waves on the screen of the ECG monitor became a straight line, and the beeping sound representing the patient's heart beating also became a cold long sound.
The last effort was declared ineffective, and the female doctor looked at Zhang Daowu's eyes wide open, full of hatred, regret, and death, and was silent for a moment, looked at the watch on his wrist weakly, and said in a low tone: "At 14:36, the patient died, and the cause of death was extensive bleeding in internal organs, resulting in rapid organ failure, over." ”
After that, she slowly walked up to Zhang Lisheng, who was as stunned as a wooden chicken, and said in an apologetic tone: "I'm sorry, but I've done my best..."
Speaking of this, the female doctor looked at the patient's parents and children who had lost their loved ones, and suddenly felt that she could no longer suppress the anger in her heart, strode out of the back room of the emergency room, and roared at the director of the emergency room in front of many patients: "The car accident patient is dead, he has a child, about sixteen or seventeen years old and still a teenager, and now he has lost his father.
And if it weren't for the damn surgery to sign, the patient would still have a chance of survival.
There were no nurses, no assistant physicians, not even a single nurse, and the entire emergency room was left to me, a novice doctor who had just obtained his occupational medical license.
I can't believe that this is a regular emergency hospital serving 400,000 people, are you in the grass to know the people's lives, are you in the grass to see the people's lives!"
There was silence in the emergency room, and it took a long time for the owner of the emergency room to react, and shouted angrily: "Doctor Mary, you can't say such irresponsible words, what is called grass and human life, I just said that as soon as the patient's family arrives, they will sign, and they will enter the operating room when they sign, who will let you save the land yourself."
I think you're the one who cares about human life.
Do you think this is in Beiping, Shencheng will also be in the United States, what is the regular emergency center, dream nickname, this is She County, western Sichuan, our county has few doctors and nurses, and it is under difficult conditions.
It's not that I invited you to come to the place, it's that you, a student of Mi Guoyang, asked to come to the hospital in poor areas for internship, and you must come to hospitals in poor areas for internships, but you were stuffed into our hospital.
To tell you the truth, if it weren't for the high-level ventilator and ECG monitor donated by the 'Huazhong Medical Charity Federation', our county hospital would not have accepted you at all.
When you come, you will 'get it, you have to get it...' This doesn't meet the requirements, that doesn't meet the regulations, I can't help it for a long time, our county hospital is not a real hospital in a poor area, you have so many opinions, if you really get to the hospital in the ravine, it won't turn the sky.
Today, if it really causes a doctor-patient dispute because of your words, and affects the evaluation of the emergency room, I can, I can, I, I'm angry with me, I'll call Dean Li, whoever is willing to serve you will serve..."
The outer room of the emergency room was noisy because of Zhang Daowu's death, but Zhang Lisheng, who was one of the most serious parties in the inner room, remained motionless and did not say a word.
Until Tao Lielin, who came with him, patted him on the shoulder, and whispered sympathetically: "Mountain worm, your father is gone, if you want to cry, you can cry out and sprinkle, don't hold it in your heart and get sick." Zhang Lisheng suddenly collapsed to the ground.
Seeing Zhang Lisheng fall suddenly, Tao Lielin ran out of the emergency room in a panic to call the doctor, and the emergency doctors from the He County People's Hospital also rushed into the back room as fast as possible, rushing to rescue Zhang Lisheng.
At this time, although Zhang Lisheng did not have any strength in his body, and his external senses seemed to be taken away, his mind was extremely clear.
The spells that were forced to be memorized before, the runes that were drawn silently, and the spells that were chanted were all clearly flashed in the memory, floating around in front of the eyes, constantly condensed and mixed together, and slowly disappeared, and only a spell was left at the end.
At the same time that the witch spell was formed, Zhang Lisheng suddenly itched all over his body, a wonderful force grew in his flesh and blood, and a sarcoma the size of a mung bean bulged out of the roof of his mouth.
After that, the amount of force in his flesh and blood appeared and disappeared, and the sarcoma also bulged, disappeared, disappeared, and bulged out again and again.
And when the strength in Zhang Lisheng's flesh and blood appeared, and the upper jaw sarcoma bulged out, there were countless snakes and insects scurrying around the mountain jungle within a radius of 100 miles around He County, and some of them actually climbed the village road in batches, or frightened pedestrians to scream, or were crushed into pulp by motor vehicles.
I don't know how long it took, the magical power in the flesh and blood and the sarcoma in the upper jaw finally stabilized and no longer disappeared, Zhang Lisheng slowly opened his eyes.
The single ward with mottled walls was filled with the smell of disinfectant water unique to the hospital, and seeing Zhang Lisheng on the hospital bed open his eyes, Mary asked with concern, "What's your name?"
"The big name is Zhang Lisheng, and the small name is the mountain bug. Zhang Lisheng blurted out a hoarse reply.
Mary held out four more fingers and asked, "How much is this?"
"Four. ”
"Great, you're sane, there's not much of a problem.
Zhang Lisheng, well, Mr. Zhang Lisheng, you are 16 years old, the youngest age to get a passport in China, you can be respectfully called 'sir', as a man, you must be strong and accept the reality..."
"My dad is dead, I know, it's okay. Zhang Lisheng said in a numb tone.